Ranchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday sought the support of opposition MLAs in strategizing a stern action against Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for its “misadventures” in Jharkhand. The state government is at loggerheads with the DVC and the Union power ministry since November over the non-payment of DVC’s dues by the JBVNL. In October, the Union power ministry had asked the RBI to deduct Rs 1,417 crore to pay a part of JBVNL’s dues to the DVC, which amounts over Rs 5,000 crore.
“DVC is a Central PSU, but it operates on our resources. It supplies power only to industrial units and deprives the poor. They do not even dispense its corporate social responsibilities (CSR). The people of Jharkhand are fed up of it,” Soren responded on behalf of his government in Jharkhand Assembly to a call attention motion brought by MLAs Irfan Ansari, Umashankar Akela and Amit Yadav.In the call attention motion, the legislators had alleged that the DVC does not dispense its CSR duties, pollutes the environment and exploits the state’s coal and other, resources but supply the bulk of power to West Bengal.